Freedom of Speech and Health Care Reform- when was the last time you heard those two in the same sentence?
I had never heard of the AAPS until this year - in contrast to the American Medical Association (AMA). Those AMA sponsored disability insurance mailers haven’t stopped clogging my mailbox since med school began. And why did all the students who got involved with of the AMA student chapter always seem to get to go on cool, free trips to Hawaii? I’m sure they were working out some important policy matter…
I am currently a member of neither organization. But wondered if perhaps the AAPS has not gained such political clout and noteriety because of its espousal of independent, private medicine as its core tenet. Idependent thinkers tend to be, well…independent.
http://www.aapsonline.org/. On their website they describe themselves as follows:
” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country.
Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Our motto, “omnia pro aegroto” means “all for the patient.”
